Half-Life 3 Confirmed? Everything the New Documentary Reveals

[@1lucia]

THE HYPE IS REAL (Subscribe! :D)

[@Catedits915]

Yeee

[@NotZealot]

"voice of Barney and.. most importantly gman" don't do my guy Barney like that bro..

[@1lucia]

@@NotZealot yeah true, "most importantly" was meant as in "most importantly as for the following". Barney is the GOAT

[@mainsmain]

​@@NotZealot "Gee, Gordon"

[@NotZealot]

@1lucia still owes me a beer

[@aidenlethbridge2675]

It would be hilarious if they either just released Half-Life 3/Episode 3 without warning, or announced it very close to it's release

[@DuneJumper]

I'm sure they will, HLA was announced only 4 months before release

[@lunathecat4318]

"hl3 release: tomorrow"

[@pontifex1]

haha such valve time

[@vibaj16]

HL3 in 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days

[@Arenumberg]

The announcement before release (sometimes very short, sometimes 1-3 months or so) is becoming more common, with the latter you can still build up coverage and interest without risk because the game is done, its not gonna be cancelled, and it wont have features or story hooks or things dropped that were promised because its done. Honestly I think this is better for most games. Its fine to say "we're working on something" and disappear and only come back with a full announcement not long before release when what you've done is largely ready because its just.. better overall. There are few cases where having eyes constantly watching and judging during development is helpful. So, it wouldnt surprise me.

[@DoiNkCascade_DOT_org]

“With the current industry today, innovation is most likely possible” Love the indirect shade of the game industry. Even a physics engine is incredibly innovative in nowadays games since no one did it since 40 years ago

[@Kacpa2]

Games regressed painfully in 2010s and especially last few years. Graphics became the only focus and they often look hedious, taking uncanny and borderline disgusting "realism", while physics and even decent sound design became worse or non existant. At best some nieche game effectively copied physics and gravity gun elwments from HL2 like Control or some.of the things indie games try but triole A is just a woeful mess of worthless and increasingly inferior 'products' and 'live services' or remakes and badly made remasters.

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@Kacpa2 Elden Ring, Doom Eternal, Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, Hades, Psychonauts 2, Hitman 3, Sparking Zero, Sifu, Monster Hunter Rise, Half Life Alyx, Inscryption, Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077... You should start actually playing games instead of regurgitating shitty video essays and reddit opinions. These last 5 years had some absolutely incredible game releases. Hell, some of my favorite games of all timed came out in the 2020s.

[@rinmeikan6229]

​@@Jane-qh2ydYou are both right. There are good games but there are still an overwhelmingly amount of garbage ass games mostly from triple A developers too.

[@Jane-qh2yd]

@@rinmeikan6229 There have always been an overwhelming amount of garbage games.

[@wm1573]

And Alyx was the only one out of those which created something "new" or innovative. That's the point. The half life series is all about setting new possibilities​@@Jane-qh2yd

[@patroller1592]

Gabe Newell said it best: "The half-life franchise is about driving innovation forward."

[@kry9714]

well having players wait for 17 years for a sequel is quite innovative, not gonna lie 😂

[@czdot]

He may have said it the best but we wanted them to continue the story anyway. :-D

[@caboose8110]

@@kry9714yeah it builds a lot of hype I guess

[@AkymarsDoc]

Half-Life: Nuts & Bolts confirmed

[@xhivo97]

​@@kry9714almost like it got a lot harder to innovate in that genre, they even said it in the documentary that they only could have done so much stuff before it's just old tricks i.e. not innovative.

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

the borealis was originally supposed to be an adorable tugboat with a face, but it made players too sad to destroy so they scrapped episode 3 entirely

[@haydfors]

Except for the fact that we see imagery of the borealis in episode 2🤣

[@Cyclopeantreegiant]

@@haydforsBut we never see the front!

[@haydfors]

@@Cyclopeantreegianttrue

[@timeryar]

"we have made it to the borealyx" -eli

[@Cyclopeantreegiant]

@@timeryar combine is invading me - xen

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

How in one day the half life 3 hype has seen a resurgence, i love it.

[@vibaj16]

it was already resurging in the past couple months with all the HLX leaks

[@JayTheSheep]

its what ive been waiting for my whole life

[@palikkalapsi345]

Half life 3 hype resurges every time Valve does literally anything that is vaguely related to Half-Life

[@kudner]

I don't think there is going to be 'multiple timelines'. I think there is one timeline, and it can be manipulated. Why would G Man spend all this time making things the way they are 'supposed to be' if there were multiple timelines? Couldn't he just ignore the timeline where things go wrong? Seems silly. Nobody talks about the choice you were given at the end of Half Life 1 and potentially the two timelines that were created, and for good reason

[@1lucia]

That’s the best argument I‘ve heard yet. I hope you‘re right

[@kudner]

@@1lucia I hope so too. Multiple timelines seems like a writing cop out. They could do something so much more interesting and meaningful

[@edrichnieuwoudt8459]

But keep in mind Half-life Alyx few things do change like Alyx's father doesn't die at the end, which tells me if Half-life 3 happens they will follow that timeline instead of Episode 2 ending.

[@libbybibby1579]

@@edrichnieuwoudt8459 how can we know that time travel works like that here though? we can assume that time travel creates different timelines but we’re not sure until they tell us, for all we know it could be a single timeline that was edited and the moment of eli’s death is just no longer extant.

[@neoneynirsen]

I'm frigging sick of multiverses and multiple timelines.

[@keeraweera20]

I feel like the tons of ships could have been world building that when The 7-hour war happened tons of people who own ships sailed off into the Arctic to hide away from whatever was going on

[@1lucia]

Good theory!

[@SourceBrother]

Or maybe the Borealis wasn't the only ship with a bootstrap device?

[@vibaj16]

Or maybe that's the Borealis being in multiple places at the same time (and ig also at different ages, thus the different appearances)

[@Mein_Kek]

But the world is flat. They sailed into the unknown continents beyond the ice walls.

[@SourceBrother]

@@Mein_Kek Nonono, they would fly off into space!!11!1!

[@lukasjanecek]

Valve shouldn’t name the next Half-Life with the number 3. They should keep the joke going and release 4 straight away.

[@tf2keller398]

Half-Life 2^2 (or 4)

[@KickSilverOMG]

Gaben already said the number 3 don't stress it.

[@lazyxeno9404]

Legacy joke is over 😭

[@itaibram1712]

Half life xen

[@cortinastone]

It WOULD be the 4th game (if you count Alyx)

[@ethernetmumasmr_3231]

I see half life 3 confirmed videos again, nature is healing

[@MegaSean45]

I think Alyx was taken away for a reason - it's been nothing but Gordon and Alyx for a large majority of the episodes and led her own game after that, that no other characters get to shine that much. Kinda like Cortana in Halo. She was absent for most of Halo 3 (other than visions), and doesn't come back till near the end. She's still involved in the story, but from a large distance from Chief. Alyx might be the same. She might have her own story going on. At least with Alyx gone for half the story, it gives more time with characters like Eli, Barney, Magnusson, Kleiner, Mossman, and maybe some of the new HLA characters like Russel and the scientist.

[@whitefang1657]

I imagined after Eli was killed, Gordan might end up going with Barney to find the Borealis instead of Alyx

[@creamboyfuengshwei]

Not only that: Her and Gordon souls are connected together - that's how she survived the Hunter attack. Maybe Gordon can "feel" where she is as a consequence?

[@Chris_W]

@@whitefang1657 Barney wasn't at White Forest tho, right?

[@MegaSean45]

@@creamboyfuengshwei Alyx becomes the new G-Man cameos!

[@whitefang1657]

@Chris_W he's not in episode 2 at all, last we see of him he's taking a train on the same track Gordan and Alyx took, so he's probably somewhere near by

[@jd_kreeper]

Something I proposed a while back was the idea that, with the Combine empire cut off from Earth, the forces on Earth fall into chaos, with the command structure tarnished. The Advisors manage to hold everything together for a few days, but once the Resistance closes the portal, the forces feel no need to obey the Combine anymore. My headcanon is that the Combine rely on what I call the Rebel's Dilemma to keep everyone in line. Basically, to start a rebellion, you need someone to make the first move, and nobody's willing to do that because they fear not getting the support they need to continue it. Few join the rebellion because they feel as if any rebellion is doomed to fail, and they don't want to be on the wrong side of the Combine. Now, my theory is that the synths are sentient beings that also think this. The synths need to be smart enough to consider rebellion, and the Combine uses this tactic to control them. Let's apply it to the events of the Episodes. The Citadel falls, and the Combine are temporarily cut off from Earth, so the synths participate in thwarting the Resistance's attempt to close the portal, because they see no possibility of the Resistance succeeding and freeing them from the Combine. THey also hope they'll get special treatment for preventing this. And once again, each individual synth fears the possibility of nobody joining them in their rebellion for the same reason they won't try, so they don't try. Now, once the Portal is closed, the synths realize that the Combine are gone now. So they just refuse to follow orders. The Advisors are forced to do the dirty work themselves when they try to kill Eli or whatever, because nobody wanted to help. Some still feared the Combine would return somehow, but with the majority of synths rebelling, they decided to join in too because they were outnumbered. This effectively removes the Combine as the antagonist, with the synths now either neutral or fighting for their cause, perfectly allowing for G-Man to be the new antagonist.

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

Really cool idea. Does make me wonder what antagonistic motivations g-man would have though.

[@unematrix]

You're assuming a lot here. Based on what we can tell about combine soldiers, they have been altered so much that they are barely even human anymore. And even CP's receive drugs to keep them doing their job. If they can do all that, can't they also just block any rebellious thoughts? They can prevent embryonic reproduction but they can't stop a few neurons from firing?

[@yissnakkjr8230]

I like this idea and theory a lot. though with how I've always imagined and envisioned The Combine army its very difficult to imagine any of the synths under Combine rule being anything more than heavily augmented flesh puppets whose free will and personalities have been completely erroded by Combine technology.

[@Nuggohmed]

its a cool theory but falls pretty short, its directly stated that combine soldiers are brainwashed and have no free will and do everything the overwatch ai tells it to do. I think its pretty safe to assume the synths are the exact same, no free will at all

[@1upD]

The concept art, the gameplay with the ice gun, the blob, and the story points suggested by Mark Laidlaw's short Epistle 3 (which did not actually involve any Half-Life characters, only similar characters with different names like Dr. Gertrude Fremont) are all remnants of the Episode 3 that the documentary spoke about which was in development for a few months after Episode 2 and was abandoned in favor of Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2. I don't think any of that work has any relation to new games Valve would make. If I had to guess, I think a future Valve might change the direction of the Half-Life series to the extent that the arctic and the Borealis won't even be involved. Those are all ideas over a decade old which the Valve of that time didn't find interesting enough to pursue.

[@1lucia]

I could see all that being the case. No Borealis would mean there will be at least 1 more game afterwards, which would be great news I‘d say :D

[@vibaj16]

HLA was gonna have the Cremator. Valve will almost certainly reuse at least a few of their ideas for episode 3, no matter how long it's been.

[@theopendoorev]

@@vibaj16but we have no way of knowing exactly what ideas they will and won’t reuse. i think they could really take this game any direction they want, and i hope they do.

[@sandwichgaming1923]

it would be cool to see gordon defeating the gman and freeing himself, they could use it for marketing, and the whole theme of the game would be "becoming the free man"

[@unearth1640]

Since graduating MIT, Gordon has been a pawn whose contract was open to the highest bidder, as Dr. Breen stated. I have a hypothesis that Gordon and Chell were given the same treatment by their respective organizations: augmented, possibly lobotomized, and essentially enslaved. The great irony of Half-Life is that Gordon has NO control and is in no form "free". Rather, control is given to the player- the Singing Vortigaunt in Water Hazard speaks of this directly: "Far distant eyes look out through yours. Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?" As nice as it might be to see this entity be liberated, I am not entirely sure if Gordon could even comprehend free will.

[@loganwhite8094]

One of the ships in the concept art pictures was the S.S. America. It was a beautiful passenger ship which sadly was left on a beach and is now almost completely gone. It's cool to see that ship there in the concept art. Sadly her sister ship the S.S. United States is going to be sunk soon, in about a month it will be sunk off of the coast of Florida or New Orleans. History of ocean liners being written right in front of our very eyes.

[@sleepytwitch]

has it stood its use? why is it being sunk? sounds intentional can you explain maybe?

[@eastofthemississippi2501]

If memory serves me correctly it has spent some years moored up in Philadelphia rotting away. No one could ever seem to find a use for these ships after passenger ships were replaced by air travel. I beleive there was an attempt to make it a museum or casino boat, but if this guy is correct then neither venture was successful.

[@ethosaur]

Thanks for featuring my map "Trek To Borealis" for the BG footage! Its exciting times to be a half-life fan! I feel like something big might be around the corner very soon... Maybe I should make an extended map pack of trek to borealis to celebrate sometime..

[@gustavodutra3633]

I love this map! Yeah, It would be cool to do an extended part of it... Who knows, maybe even get inspired by some cool concept art from the documentary! It's so cool to see those huge Combine structures in the desolate arctic background.

[@ethosaur]

@@gustavodutra3633 Oh yeah I was absolutely inspired, especially the one with the huge ice blocks carved out revealing the borealis...

[@Loopy1330]

I want to contribute some further possible ideas for Half-Life 3 with what I've found from the new developer commentary in Half-Life 2. This is speculation like everything else, only based off of what we already know and what is suggested. 1. In the chapter Entanglement, the developer commentary (I think it was either Marc Laidlaw or Dave Riller) says that they wanted to explore more of Dr. Mossman, but they never finished her character arc because of Episode 3. When Gordon and Alyx reunite with Mossman after learning about her betrayal, the commentary also says that Alyx would never kill Mossman despite the high tension. In playtests, most players would try to shoot Mossman after her betrayal, so Valve had place her behind bulletproof glass and have the beginning of the sequence paced fast enough so that Alyx could size up the situation first, thus discouraging players to shoot. This is in contrast with Epistle 3 which had Alyx killing Mossman in the heat of the moment. It seems likely to me that Dr. Mossman will live in Half-Life 3, possibly spending more time to bond with the player or having something else done with her character acr in a positive way. 2. At the beginning of Anti-Citizen One where D0g throws the van at a squad of Combine soldiers, the developer commentary states that Valve wished they could have had D0g be more involved in gameplay as a companion. The couldn't do it in Half-Life 2 though because D0g's mechanics would be so different from both the player and the types of enemies designed for the player to fight, meaning they would have had to build an entirely new game from scratch with new enemy types for D0g. Valve did experiment with a D0g and Alyx game at some point with concept art that leaked, and the leaked Episode 3 maps had levels where the player could upgrade D0g with new abilities and weapons. Perhaps Half-Life 3 will include at least one section where Gordon and D0g go on a journey to rescue Alyx? I think Xen would be a great place for D0g gameplay because the environment is so varied and there are all sorts of aliens non-native to Xen. It would give Valve total creative freedom to come up with alien enemies and levels tailored to him. D0g fighting old enemies like a gargantua or a tentacle would be cool too, and it would help to make HL1 and 2 feel more connected. I may edit this at some point with further ideas, two hefty paragraphs is already enough though lol.

[@lucypletzke8138]

gosh i really hope xen is seen again. seeing an official redo of the location would be amazing

[@Medic_Main_TF2]

We getting half life 3 announced before gta 6

[@TheRealClaylex]

I've joked and said the day GTA 6 and HL2 EP3/HL3 come out around the same year we're gonna be eating GOOD

[@Skototr0pism]

Crazy shit

[@xBIGFLATSx]

I am so sick of seeing this joke on literally every video for the last year

[@MegaSean45]

I've been seeing that "before GTA 6" thing alot. I guess that's the new "HL3 confirmed"

[@asterlofts1565]

But we have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 AND GTA VI BEFORE HALF-LIFE 3.

[@gerhardjanssen6822]

6:00 Eli is no longer dead since Alyx saved him in the HL-Alyx closing scene moving the story forward by like 5 seconds including Gordon receiving the crowbar again

[@VS-010]

So, what I'm getting at that the Half-Life series was always meant to be an experimental think tank for game devs It would explain why Valve was so keen on mod support and etc.

[@N1kola22]

Half-Life 3 would be the best thing ever. Also workshop for Half-Life 2 already has like 83 pages xd

[@skreem6343]

im still in doomer mode for any half life release, even if id be physically playing it id still doubt it being real

[@1lucia]

Real but I think it’s time to let the guards down

[@MatildaMk2]

​@@1lucia if the guards come down the pain hits harder If the guards stay up the pain still hits hard but... maybe less hard

[@LouSassol69er]

They're staffing up, that's real. The leak show they're definitely putting new R&D work into a new half Life related project. And Gabe said basically in the documentary it's a good time for new ventures in the half life world.

[@Rays_K]

@skreem6343 Same but for me, unless an official trailer comes out showing a hint of continuation of the HL stories, I won't keep my hopes up.

[@gachigasm3210]

@@LouSassol69er Yeah they got so many devs and I highly doubt its all for Deadlock

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Gordon can't be the G-Man. The G-Man actually talks.

[@DrFunk98]

I think it would be funny if the game did open in the arctic. And the Borealis just gets destroyed at some point. As a meta way of being like "this ship has tied everyone down for too long. Time to move beyond it."

[@eastofthemississippi2501]

LOL that would be amazing. 20 years of anticipation of this concept, and its just gets obliterated. I think that would be the innovation Gabe is lookong for though. Imagine this: Gordon arrives scene with the resistance, the combine call an audible and sink the Borealis rather than let it fall into their hands. Now Gordon has to dive to recover the technology aboard, so you get underwater sequences, almsot like exploring the titanic.

[@AtomicSuperGuy]

Can't believe we're getting Half-Life 3 announcement before Half-Life 3

[@lithium444]

I still can't believe we got HL3 footage of the blobster in action

[@LucidNightmarez]

What if all those ships in the Arctic, are the borealis. Like every version of the borealis from around the multiverse just co-exists in the same universe, glitching in and out of space and time at will. That would kinda explain the side-ways ships.

[@Josh-ge4lh]

gordon being in the distant fututre reminds me of chell whos also in the distant future afaik, i wonder if they ever thought about having them meet or something

[@JamesR624]

That could make a lot of sense considering how Portal 2 ended. I wonder if we'd be seeing a merging and Chell and Gordon breaking back into Aperture to get GLaDOS's help with the Combine?

[@tomorrowisyesterday3215]

Imagine both of them meet, they just silence and only do body language

[@jamaigar]

​@@tomorrowisyesterday3215 or a sick ass dance battle

[@Chris_W]

@@tomorrowisyesterday3215 Can't do ASL without dropping the cube...

[@PosibilLupu]

finally, the game I've been always waiting for... Half Life: Arctic Boogaloo

[@madsiguess]

I really agree with the idea that HLA’s Alyx is from a separate timeline. It would explain the different enemy types and characters. Along with the fact she could be “plucked” from the past.

[@nadirafurry]

Adrian Shepard and Gordan get into a 3 hour knife-fight and then the credits roll. Honestly, I wish valve just drops an "episode 3" thats a short experience like the sierra/gearbox expansion like the original half-life. It would be nice if an "episode 3" just wrapped up some loose ends.

[@dominik948]

1:16 The same weapon skin as the Portal 2 Beta Paint Gun (weapon_paintgun). 🥶

[@itsmanos_]

There isn't a paint gun in Portal 2, I'm guessing you are talking about the mod which wouldn't make sense considering it isnt an official mod from Valve

[@dominik948]

@@itsmanos_ In the Portal 2 Beta, there was a weapon_paintgun. Information about it can be found on the Combine Overwiki, and a video about it is linked under the "External links" section at the bottom of the page.

[@dominik948]

@@itsmanos_ Search for it on overwiki

[@frank_calvert]

the gel gun looks completely different

[@dominik948]

@@frank_calvert Just search for it on the internet. This is a deleted beta content.

[@kevinsteel7875]

They wouldn't have released Alyx with that cliffhanger without plans for Half Life 3. That's what I choose to believe.

[@xx_big_man_xx]

My theory is Barney is actually an version of G-man and he’s been helping Gordon all along and because the G man looks old, that would mean Barney has gone older too, so that’s why that is there

[@princessarialeer]

Their explanation is WHY I’m not stressed about ‘half-life 3’. Half-life, at its core, is a passion project made by people who want to show what can be done with technology. It’s a demonstration of the limit at that time. There has always been passion behind the half-life games. There will always be more, as long as there is passion for it.

[@complex8201]

cant wait for half life arctic boogaloo to release

[@buddyisbored2355]

5:18 is it just me or does the arm look like a tentacle from Blast Pit?

[@jd_kreeper]

Imagine if Alyx was already taken by the G-Man in the HL2 timeline, and replaced by an imposter. Real Alyx is abducted and a fake Alyx is placed in the ruins of the vault to continue the timeline up until the aircraft hanger incident in Episode Two, with Eli's death never happening to begin with but rather was something that *would've* happened if Alyx didn't kill the advisor. And this is what Eli is freaking out about. He just watched a second younger Alyx appear out of nowhere, fry the advisor that was about to kill him, and disappear, then the first Alyx grins at him before being thanos snapped out of existence. After speculating for a while before Gordon woke up, he realized that the second Alyx was real and involved with the G-Man, and the first Alyx was a fake all this time, tying the split back to the vault incident 5 years prior.

[@1lucia]

Would be insanely evil of Valve to do lol

[@Simon_Dunkaccino]

I MISS BARNEY CALHOUN :(((((

[@zerroukyoucef3013]

i think gordon will use the borealis to telport to the combine overworld to cut the connection between the earth and combine

[@VS-010]

We have come full circle from Gordon being theorized to be the G-Man to not being the G-Man, then back to being the G-Man Also I think the development of smart A.I. in hl3 could be a rather nice innovation

[@KANL0907]

A really out of the world take but it's a pretty cool one I thought of right now. Brace yourselves: Gman is not an alien but in fact a human; a shareholder funding the Borealis project stuck in a multi-dimensional time loop by himself as a result of being on the ship during its teleportation. There are no employers, but rather the employers are other versions of himself moving from one dimension/timeline to another, an unconscious unison that keeps him safe and somewhat sanely functional to his goals(but keeps the mulitple versions of himself as employers as a motif, signifying that he lost his marbles due to the Borealis experimentation from Aperture, thinking he is still working for some company). He/They work in unison to find a lead to stopping the Combine. He never finds a solution, just sees multiple dimensions and trying everything to no avail. A Sisyphus myth in a corporate suit that never reaches the desired outcome or never decides upon one. He nearly gets captured by the Combine but got freed through his clever foresight time-weaving with his/him-employers(the combine stopping his copies from running altogether) by Alyx -> That's when the Combine nearly got him when they reached the Borealis - he is somehow stuck there. The solution: Gordon "demoting" the Gman by killing the Gman and harnessing the power of the Borealis, scene called "You're fired/demoted". How he does that? Maybe by discovering the dimension weaves or the imprisonment tech already present from the Combine. The remnants of the other versions of Gman are fading away all traveling, however wherever they step they help Gordon trace the correct dimension pockets, as he does not know how to travel between these dimensions and where they go.What goes on in the Half-Life universe? Will Gordon get mad over his new power? Will he stop the combine? We will find out in a next release! The events remain the same with the concept art, finding the Borealis with combine tech -tralala. But to be honest this would be a clever switcharoo. I hope my English makes sense. Not a native speaker and am a tad bit tired. lmao

[@ThesentrynamedVasser]

I love your content Lucia And your speed at speaking And i wish that Valve someday will talk about entropy zero

[@1lucia]

thank you :D

[@hazzmati]

why would Valve talk about a fan mod?

[@CSXBoys]

@@hazzmati i mean, they did with gmod. valve is pretty good about appreciating fanworks, at least as far as ive seen

[@jeanhoux202]

I doubt they care about fan mod game where you play as a cringe redditor

[@skaynne54]

​​​​​​​@@jeanhoux202Jealous the mod did overwhelmingly well ? It literally raised the bar on modding. Quit btching and do something with your life, instead of shtting over a mod that was very much loved. You get new mods to play, but all you have to say is "mAiN cHaRaCtEr BaD". Like, jesus christ, that comment alone makes you quite the insufferable person. At least, the Breadman Team did something fun to play. You may not like it, but you are clearly in the small ass minority, here. Get over it.

[@KhaledIron]

yea im with your theory, GMan being antagonist, what if objective is to eliminate him and somehow everything is rewinded back to being in Black Mesa LOL, feel like a crappy ending but not far out

[@G7ue]

My theory on why the concept art had so many ships, is that the Borealis in the main HL2 timeline was the cause of some sort of slip in time and space, allowing changes to take place between timelines, such as the one in HL:A. The other ships would have been the Borealis from alternate timelines and universes, all converging to our Borealis due to whatever fuckery was going on inside, causing it to become a sort of anchor. The idea that Alyx from HL:A, and Alyx from HL2 are two entirely different entities could play into that. If that's the reason for the change in VA's, that's a next level move from Valve, setting up the next game.

[@TheSixteen60]

The Blob entity almost looks like a Metroid. Maybe we’ll see a blob like Metroid in Prime 4.

[@fausthanos08]

yeah, now that you're pointing that out, it really does look like a metroid

[@fausthanos08]

didn't know the bros at valve are metroid fans lol

[@KKarenOwO]

What if we will encounter a new faction too? Likely G-Man's faction (G-Man's employers especially) in their true form, 'cause the trend is new enemy with each half life. Xen is HL1 main enemy, Combine becomes HL2 main enemy, and now G-Man's faction miiight be HL3's main enemy? Since like Lucia have said himself, G-Man may take a more antagonistic role now after HLA ending. And of course the game must start in a train to keep the trend Maybe we board a train to a city closest to borealis?

[@citycowboy702]

First play Black Mesa (the mod that brings HL 1 into the 20th century), then HL2 Update, then HL2 Episode 1, then HL 2 Episode 2, then you will be up to date (basically). For extra credit there's HL Blue Shift and HL Opposing Force. You're welcome.

[@saschaberger3212]

Half Life Artic Boogaloo

[@JayTheSheep]

Great video, very well done. God, the Half-Life series is everything gaming encapsulates for me. I grew up with HL when I was a teen, now I'm 28 and I can't wait to experience the next chapter...

[@DazyBrad]

I have this theory going on my mind for some time: what if eli and gordon find a way to put out people out of gman's stasis and try it but instead of alyx, they put another person out of stasis: Adrian shepherd

[@Unkown67585]

I wonder if half life 3 adds unused npcs and weapons

[@shayoko6]

when there is a official game page this is a worth while discussion and not a moment before.

[@KamKrzem]

2:57 using Cheaple Male 1 model to diss the haters, I can respect that Lucia

[@Bneboy]

I'm so invested in the half life universe now that I would still be thrilled if they released episode 3 for stories sake, even if nothing new is implemented lol

[@Faalout]

Ich habe noch nie ein video so schnell angeklickt Edit: Deine Videos sind wirklich gut und noch eine frage weißt du warum portal und portal 2 nicht mehr auf steam erhältlich sind

[@ready4oil]

Bei mir ist Portal 1 & 2 auf Steam erhältlich

[@Faalout]

@@ready4oil Komisch bei mir nur soundtrack bei 2 und Demo bei 1

[@saschaberger3212]

Kein Problem mit Portal oder Portal 2. Muss bei dir liegen

[@Faalout]

@@saschaberger3212 ok sehr komisch starte meinen PC nochmal neu vielleicht dann

[@Faalout]

Jetzt ist es da ich bin absolut verwirrt

[@StereoCoda]

I personally think in HL3, Xen will be a major factor of it. Perhaps we use the Borealis as a portal to travel between different areas, much like how they teleported the Borealis to a random ice area?

[@MajeureX]

2:07 Shame you didn't discuss or speculate on what innovations Valve might be drawing on for Half-Life 3. AI is biggest new tech so I could see Valve trying to draw on that. Perhaps characters you can converse with directly, or perhaps a more advanced LLM driven AI Director like that of Left for Dead.

[@D4RKMA7TER]

I don't care much for new innovative mechanics in each game even if it is cool and unique... I think most of us just want to know what happens and the overall story and who the G-Man really is and who he works for. Stuff like having to return to Black Mesa or heading to Aperture Science would be amazing through the borealis, I just want the story to continue already.

[@wolvertox311]

Valves writers are smart enough not to plainly just say who or what the g man is or who he works for

[@fubar12345]

The mystery of Gman is what makes him interesting, I doubt they will ever explain everything about him - it would never be as intriguing as just leaving it to people's imaginations.

[@morbsgrin7]

gabe, that is easy: you should put advance interactive AI everywhere, enemies, npcs... c'mon

[@VanGtfogh]

I think the teleportation/oscillation mechanic could be interesting and something notably forward-pushing, but I can also see that it’s still not necessarily the new tech they are looking for. It’s tough because gaming breakthroughs have become few and far between over the last decade, when by comparison, just having a physics engine in 2003/04 was revolutionary. It makes sense that they pivoted to Portal and other IPs when they did. I was always hoping that the portal gun would make its way into HL3 haha. I look forward to what they do next.

[@kane8649]

I wish they'd get in contact with the people behind Entropy: Zero and somehow work the cop into the story. Like he appears there for some time or is somehow mentioned. Those guys had some amazing ideas.

[@bmd103]

gordon being gman in the future is my favorite headcanon tbh

[@jamesjames7601]

Hooray, we'll get another sequel that ends on a cliffhanger, more unanswered questions, and another 10 year wait time for a follow up

[@Thomas-v9n8k]

Hello Gordon

[@Real_Gordon_Freeman]

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[@The-Australian-alligator]

Hello Gordon

[@Thomas-v9n8k]

Hello shepherd

[@BreadTeleporter1968]

Another day another dollar

[@StarObeliskZ]

It's good to see you

[@RickOShay]

When perception becomes reality

[@SteveAdmienn]

I have a little theory, or more like story line, that is so long it leads up to Half-Life 4. But TLDR: Alyx is in the Arctic due to Gman's demands. When Gordon enters the area, Gman then awakens Corporal Shephard to hunt him down, clearly showing that he doesn't want him to intervene in Alyx's mission. Gordon, Eli, Mossman, and Barney get to the Borealis where they accidentally go back to the 7 hour war. Gordon needs to fend off the Combine forces at that time for the Borealis to recharge and go back to the current timeline. Eli ends up breaking the Borealis. They end up in Aperture Science where they all get captured by Glados. Gordon is able to get his suit back but uses the portal gun to battle Glados who has modified herself with the Gravity gun and knowledge she got from Eli. After escaping Aperture in Glados's death, (here's the part I really want to see) Gordon gets reunited with his lost family (Gordon canonically has a niece or nephew from the baby photo in his locker back in Half-Life 1). Then with the still functioning Nasa spaceship modified to jump dimensions, Gordon, Barney, Eli, Mossman, Kleiner, and Gordon's relative go to Xen since Eli somehow finds Alyx's coordinates there. In Xen they find old Black Mesa equipment and research sites, Kleiner now picking up samples. Gordon is hunted by a giant Combine mech that is twice his size. Gordon needed to sacrifice himself again in Xen to let the others escape, then battles the mech as the final boss. The mech is destroyed open revealing that Alyx was inside the mech the whole time, seeing differently through the mech's lenses. Gman appears disappointed that his plan backfired, so he makes a wormhole that pulls Alyx and Gordon into the Combine Homeworld. This is where Half Life 4 could be at. My idea for the Combine Homeworld is possibly an artificial solar system, with giant superstructures connecting the planets they had captured, one structure empty where Earth is supposed to be. There we meet the remaining alien species that are the base aliens the Combine uses to make Striders and some other living weaponry. Gordon is then given the task to revive the old rebellion in the Combine Homeworld where he then faces the Combine leader itself. I have many ideas about how the leader might look like. One cool idea I have is that the leader has been modified so much, it's original species is now extinct. A literal living fossil, modified to live forever. Another idea is a living planet. Thats all I have for now.

[@Amadeone]

My guy, what were you smoking. Cool ideas tho. I also feel inspirations from other games, like the mech with wolfenstein the new order.

[@KickSilverOMG]

man this would be a rainbow pool of absolute top tier gaming entertainment. Like a Valve all-games party.

[@ilearnedsomethingnewtoday6193]

We've heard something to this effect every year for over a decade

[@JuanGamer0202]

All things aside, the ice gun frezzing the combine soldier to death then causing and he falling to the side like a rock has to be the funniest shit I've seen in a while

[@brycefilms101]

The fact that getting a new Half-Life game is a genuine possibility is really exciting. If I had my way I’d probably have the next game be a sort of ‘episode 3’ and wrap up the Combine’s occupation of Earth plot point with a game after it being a more full fledged ‘HL3’ that centers around the Gman and his employers as the primary focus.

[@cammyiskewl]

gordon being gman is some little nightmares 2 shit and I love it

[@fainyance11]

On the topic of showcasing scale, I think the wall of ships stacked like a canyon would be an excellent way to demonstrate how easily the Combine can manipulate our Earth. They went digging for the Borealis through a ship graveyard and doing so lead them to effortlessly stack the dummy ships aside like they were just building blocks.

[@Th4t0neF0x]

4:47 my only speculation is that the rebels and the refugees tried to escape the combine by evacuating to the arctic, since they lost all communication with every other continent and which meant it was probably captured already

[@MikeDest]

hell yeah, Gordon IS the G Man

[@proto_shane5059]

Haflife 3: battle for 5€ döner

[@Dimasterim]

I think the Vault from HLA kinda uses some of the ideas from the original concept of the Borealis. The vault also warps time and space once you enter it, and experiencing it in VR makes it more impactful than a similar idea in flat screen. I don’t know if Valve cares about that, but if they do they either have to top the mind fuckery of the Vault or come up with some completely new idea to make it feel more impactful instead of more of the same.

[@geno4526]

My version of a storyline to ep3: Chapter 1 what is borealis?: after seeing the tragedy of Eli at white forest Gordon and Alex also see the helicopter is broken and return to Dr Kleiner. They think about the problem on how to get to the borealis without wasting time. Alyx still devastated stays at white forest and repairs the helicopter as backup. While as kleiner suggests to gordon he should make it to a portal in the lab and he has to go with him to the lab because he has to open the doors for him. They travel together and kleiner gives useful tips on the way and tells more about borealis. Chapter 2 the lab: the lab is like a copy of black mesa. they go through the whole place with gordon having to defend and help kleiner from door to door and sometimes the eyelock is broken and gordon has to be creative. kleiner refuses to use a gun. says he hates violence. they arrive at the portal which in the end is build in the same kind of room like the first portal but from scraps and salvage into a small similar to the other prototypes. Kleiner calls alyx, who has good news. the chopper is almost fixed and she'll fly over but dog is already almost there. kleiner asks gordon privately to get an experiment form another lab that has a lot of enemies. it will be useful for the fight at borealis and make things easier. dog arrives and joins him too into the portal. Chapter 3 Opening doors: a long fight is fought and gordon and dog get to the room where the secret weapon is. It's the aperture science portal gun. he takes it and they continue back and have heavy resistance on the return but gordon uses the portal gun to overcome all blocks and broken pathways so he gets quickly back. dog was lost on the return hunting hunters. gordon returns alone to make it for Alyx return and tells her he lost dog. alyx tries to be brave. but has to focus on her dads wish to stop borealis no matter what. Chapter 4 time, dr freeman?: they arrive to borealis, great adventure in route to ship, arrive there finally and try to find out what happened to mossman. They find signs of slaughter and then arrive to find two vortigaunts protecting mossman who tells them finally what secret is in borealis. the borealis has timedisplacement secrets which they had been able to use for moving huge things around and try to stop things before they happened. There is a secret crystal gordon has to get that was lost but the vortigaunts have an idea. but he must enter the icecaves with all zombies, headcrabs and other anomalies you can think of and finally also the blobs at the end. Chapter 5 Time for a reset: gordon travels back with a citizen modded bike to get to the lab where alyx, kleiner and barney waits, getting citizen resistance help along the road. kleiner sees the crystal and gets exstatic. they must get to white forest immediately. alyx, barney, gordon defend kleiner to also meet up with dog on the way on the surface to white forest. there kleiner and magnusson work together two days while they defend the base that combine try to attack in huge forces. finally they are ready with a last stand scene and gordon has the portal gun with the crystal but shoots it by mistake at the wall. There they see in the time displacement portal the building where Eli died, alyx and gordon enter it and have time to see themselves leave like at the beginning of ep 3 when the heli was confirmed broken. they go to Elis body and gordons gun misfires again, this time at the chopper that gets repaired like brand new. then he shoots Eli with it and he gets back to same health as before he lost his leg and young. but with all memories from what had happened. HL3: whole game plot to use the new weapon all from before but also icegun and some superweapon, they fight to find out how to do revenge vs the advisors and then find a trail left by breen. open world free 1-6 player coop but all must choose one available character. mission unlocks to get toward the last battle which would be at Xen to kill the traitor breen and stop the combine for good as they search who is behind it all. more vehicles, lots of different areas and 3 citadels to connect for a superportal to xen.

[@esmax3000]

yk what would be cool? having the borialis teleporting back to aperture with gordon and alyx in it and they have to use glados to defeat the combine

[@ghost-z2w]

i hope that when hl3 comes out that entropy zero 2 does not conflict with it because then i can still consider it canon

[@jamieisanidiot]

gordon becoming g-man would be so unsatisfying, it's hard to say what will happen this early on though

[@TheSixteen60]

That reminds me of that one SFM video where Gordon turns into Gman. Admittedly that was just the scene in Return of the Joker in Half-Life vision but still.

[@hiepnguyenquang769]

source 2 is mostly done. you can see how environment in CS2, rain in Train maps. they are testing sourcing ability for last dance of HL

[@ContoniaCosmo]

if i see that gordon freeman render one more time im gonna cause a resonance cascade

[@FAIZAFEI]

Imagine the story end by G man sending Gordon back in time back on his bed the day he overslept

[@romanianpatriot2095]

This concept of Gordon becoming the G-man or a new employee is intresting,but quite odd.And it sad we still have no news about Adrian,taking in consideration the fact that half life arctic boogaloo could be the last game.

[@antirevomag834]

Wait, it's always just been fan theory that g-man is a multi-time-versal being? I legit thought that was what they were hinting at since the literal first game. His vocalizations even speak adamantly of knowing the future, and hl2 starts with the line 'the wrong man in the right place can make all the difference in the world'. I thought they WANTED us to extrapolate him as being such a being.

[@Ribbons0121R121]

my personal theory for so much xen involvement is due to the fact that it was the resonance cascade that attracted the combine, but how would the combine know about something happening in backwater xen? and why is their portal technology so grand and one way? they may not use personal xen teleportation due to the amount of risk involved, and thus know about something theyre monitoring in xen remotely that secret third thing, with whatever the gman is, will be my best guess as to the point of contention

[@Not_Evil_]

Whats crazy about HL2 is, is that it still looks good today

[@UhYeahNoThanks]

if you had told teenage me back in 2007 that we'd still be theorizing about what Half Life 3 will be and when it will release

[@Skrenja]

That concept art is so beautiful.

[@chaosmiles07]

Doylist theory: Valve realized that other companies managed to beat them to the punch on several innovations over the past 20ish years, and haven't figured out how to do one that none of them have already done. They want to _invent_ a new innovation, a new design idea, so they can stand out from the crowd. And unfortunately, that means they haven't been able to produce _anything_ "worthy" of being a Half-Life 3 (or Ep3) release. They "missed the boat", one might even say.

[@fausthanos08]

i think that is the case, but gabe said in the hl2 20th anniversary documentary that they are "not running short of these ideas right now", so things have most likely changed and they were able to develop a ground-breaking innovation

[@Ratone17]

Half life 3 should definitely focus on if they choose to use vr for it fully body immersion and a focus on a physics based player rig similar to boneworks as for story they should keep alyx being stuck in stasis and Eli being alive and as we learn from the resistance base that are monitoring the borealis that the Gman is at the borealis sitting and waiting for something as the alien bug thing (I forgot the name) that the robot dog killed (also for got dogs name) as he killed it the alien bug telepathically gave the coordinates to its alien bug friends and now know where the base is located the combine start a attack on the base as the resistance holds a siege on the base this gives the player (returning or new) the opportunity to learn the basics of half life physics based player rig like jumping up to a ledge and pulling yourself up and working on physics puzzles or electrical puzzles to escape the attacking base while also getting a feel for physics combats like physically hitting combine soldiers to kill them like boneworks I feel this is a good start to half life 3 lmk what you guys think :)

[@DeanAmx]

The idea of ship, portal, and blobs remind me about shadowrun snes.

[@NotZealot]

Halbes leben drei is real and it takes place in frankfurt

[@Creature_Gaming_YT]

Basically the city 17 of Germany...

[@slav4335]

will all the characters speak turkish?

[@raigeki2k605]

@@slav4335Turkish and Arabic

[@luquinhawivron]

It would be nice if they add more AI in the game, because this a technology in ascension

[@MarcussJay]

For many years when I was younger I was almost angry at the fact that they didn’t do an Ep 3 years after HL2 ep 2. But as I got older .. I got what they meant by wanting it to be proper, bigger, better more innovative. It truly shows just how much they care for the game, the story, and more importantly how their fan base views the game.

[@tomtomasz9798]

a dd ai with language capabilities like chat gpt or something , add flying with chopters , walking in mech - shooting and diving .

[@fredschmitt456]

...and still no plans of a Gordon-Freman-Chell-Crossover where puzzles can only be solved by combining the gravity gun and the portal gun..?

[@angela-2-4]

i dont care how long it takes, as long as its releasing, ill always be hyped

[@Akel-th7rq]

I want to see some crazy stuff happening in HL3. Something like a rocket falling from the sky, or Doug Rattman teleporting gazillion companion cubes.